Limits of Jurisdiction and Admissibility Requirements in the ICSID System under the 1965 Washington Convention

The article examines the limits of the jurisdiction of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and the admissibility requirements for bringing claims under procedures based on the 1965 Washington Convention, with particular attention to the legal nature of the parties’ consent, the relationship between ICSID’s institutional jurisdiction and the tribunal’s powers, and the doctrinal and practical distinction between jurisdiction and admissibility; it synthesizes typical approaches to procedural objections concerning temporal limits of consent, competing fora, and pre-arbitral settlement steps, and emphasizes the importance of legally certain access criteria for the stability of protection and the predictability of decision-making.